Comment author: gjm 12 April 2012 07:32:56PM 0 points [-]

Aren't you one of the founders of "Truth Strike"?

Comment author: Hicquodiam 12 April 2012 07:53:02PM *  1 point [-]

Yeah, well, not the blog. The forum. The blog is Kevin's.

Kinda confusing... I'm sure there was a point to doing that somewhere.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 12 April 2012 10:57:28AM 4 points [-]

This is an advertisement for your new web page, am I right?

Comment author: Hicquodiam 12 April 2012 07:03:26PM 0 points [-]

Nah; neither of those links are mine.

Comment author: gjm 12 April 2012 12:26:55PM 10 points [-]

I haven't downvoted this because it's already at -7 and that seems low enough, but: to my mind the (closely related) two worst things about this article are (1) that it says almost nothing -- "How to read reality accurately? Just practice the accurate reading of what's going on." and (2) that the great majority of it is taken up with rhetoric: rah-rah, truth is good, self-deceit is bad, yay for being right, boo to being wrong. The only part of the content that isn't obvious to more or less the entire human race is the observation that people are often irrational and don't check their models of the world carefully against reality. For sure, there's an audience that needs to hear that, but I doubt it overlaps much with people reading the discussion section of Less Wrong.

Comment author: Hicquodiam 12 April 2012 07:02:31PM *  3 points [-]

Yeah, okay, you're right.

I didn't really get too familiar with this site before posting that. Thanks for the slap on the face.

Do you know any articles that take this deeper?

Comment author: Hicquodiam 12 April 2012 06:17:22AM 0 points [-]
Comment author: fiddlemath 12 April 2012 05:17:55AM 4 points [-]

My withdrawals are a couple of lazy days, with a nasty headache about 24 to 30 hours after the last cup. Are yours much worse than this?

Comment author: Hicquodiam 12 April 2012 05:35:53AM 1 point [-]

Haha nah, I'm just overdramatizing the headaches I got - I'm a little baby. They did make me slip back a few times though.

After I cut out the coffee, I had probably about two days of withdraws, then stopped noticing anything.

Comment author: AlexSchell 10 April 2012 05:27:01PM *  3 points [-]

I think it would be much more fruitful to look at the problem the other way around. From the inside perspective of a particular scientific project it is ridiculously easy to think of all the potential benefits your work may have in the future, uncertain as they may be. This is especially so with publicly funded STEM research projects, which won't be funded unless the PI manages to convince a grant approval board that there is some potential for benefit. But from the outside perspective of someone choosing which project to work on, it should be obvious to see that some projects simply have a lot more expected benefit than others (even if you ignore from your consideration alleged trump cards like existential risk reduction, ETA: and probably even if you limit your scope to a particular field you are already trained in).

Comment author: Hicquodiam 12 April 2012 02:22:14AM 1 point [-]

^ Exactly

The cool thing about being human is, our passion's automatically triggered in response to compassion. You find something that'll really help the world, and it'll pull your life with more force than fifty sith lords.

You're in microbiology - shouldn't have to look too hard.

Comment author: Hicquodiam 12 April 2012 02:05:44AM 1 point [-]

When I drank coffee for about a year, I didn't have any noticeable impairments, at least nothing that slapped me in the face.

The withdraws though... oh god the withdrawals.